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This drill is trail arm stop sign. So I've got the disk catcher out and this

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time

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I've just taped a foam noodle to it so we can kind of have a better idea of

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exactly where it's pointing. What I tend to see that a lot of golfers have a

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scoop or an early release down at the bottom and what I've found over the last

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few years is that it tends to be more of the trail arm. So right arm for a

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right

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in a golfer that creates that problem and so just trying to motorcycle and get

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a

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flat ish left wrist at impact doesn't always fix the problem because then the

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right arm sabotages it. So if you have that scoop and or early release you

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either

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have to train more control with the left arm so the right arm doesn't mess it

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up

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or you need to train that right arm to work properly because as long as the

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right arm is sabotaging your efforts you're gonna struggle with the early

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release or scoop miss pattern which is typically fat and thin contact and more

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of a pull start line or potentially leaving the face open. So the pull comes

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more from the path getting left from that early release of the right side or

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you

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can leave the face open and hit more of a weak push off to the right. So pulls,

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push

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fades, fat thin. If you struggle with that there's a good chance you've got

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some

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right arm training or trail arm training that would help. So the trail wrist

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stop

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sign is basically it's very similar to the finger release but I'm going to use

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I'm gonna put more of the emphasis after impact instead of right at impact. So

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with the finger release I focus on keeping the

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keeping the extension of that right arm or the right wrist as I go into impact

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and just beyond. So basically seeing how the fingers are pointing behind. The

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stop sign is focusing mostly on the rotation of the forearm while still

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keeping that extension. What I find that a lot of golfers do trying to break

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the

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habit of an early release is they try to keep the extension of the wrist but

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the

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direction that they're using the wrist is more going under like this and trying

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to keep the extension pointed at the target like that as opposed to letting

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it rotate. What that looks like is when I put a club in my hands is if I keep

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the

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extension and go more under it like this you can see that the club starts

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coming

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up very quickly and the bottom of the arc is behind the golf ball. So even

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though

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my practice swing I have a good amount of extension there when I apply speed it

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's

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going to bottom out behind the ball and have more of a fat thin contact pattern

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to it. In order to get the bottom of the swing forward I need to work on this

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lead wrist stop sign pattern or sorry the trail wrist stop sign pattern. So I'm

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going to get more of that rotation feeling like that right wrist is

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covering and it's almost pointing at the target in a stop sign movement kind of

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like that. Similar to the shake cans with the target line but exaggerating it a

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little bit more. Now I'm making sure that I'm not getting it from the shoulder

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so

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I'm not turning my hand and letting this arm fly away. I'm reaching out towards

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the target but through kind of the inside of the shoulder blade. Once you have

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that

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feeling you can do either single arm training or 9 to 3 or 3/4 or full swings.

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So with the single arm training I'm going to try to get that feeling of more

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that right arm extending through but that wrist rotating through more like

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that. So keeping the extension as it rotates through and what you'll see is

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from the face-on video that'll have a look like it has really good extension

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and

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width on the follow through as opposed to if I tried to extend the wrist but

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was

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still coming more up. So if I tried to keep the extension of the wrist really

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holding back the flip but I was working more up you could see that it's going

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to

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be virtually impossible to be strong enough to resist that movement and even

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if I did the bottom of the swing is still going to be behind the golf wall

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because of the direction that my arm or my hand path is swinging. So let's do

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another good one where we're going to get that stop feeling more in that

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follow through so I'm getting really good arm extension and I'm feeling like

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that

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hand rotates over more like that. Next I'm going to try it in more of a 9 to

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3 version so I'm going to bring it and I'm just going to allow the left hand to

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support that movement of the right hand. You'll see as I do this I'm tending to

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have a little bit more of a lower launch than if I had more of a scoot

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pattern. That's a good sign that I'm doing that trail wrist properly I'll be

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able to get the launch back when I take bigger swings and add more of a bracing

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component. So now we'll move it up to about three-quarter. So a little late on

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that one but what you'll see from the video is that I still got the bottom of

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the swing forward hit the ball pretty solidly just didn't quite get the face

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close so flared it a little bit off to the right. Now we'll go close to four

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swing and I'm still trying to feel that arm extension keeping the wrist hinged

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and letting that right arm rotate after impact so that it feels like my palm is

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facing more towards the target. This is similar to a lot of the other trail

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arm release drills or hinge and hold kind of 9 to 3 feelings where I'm

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keeping that extension and instead of just trying to hold back the flip I'm

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redirecting it with more of a rotational movement. So pretty solid one there

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getting that good arm extension in the follow-through. If you struggle with

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more

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of a trail arm scoop or early release you can use the disk catcher you can use

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the finger release or you can use this idea of more of the trail arms stop sign

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in order to ultimately solve that right arm problem down at the bottom.